Ranciére

In his explanation of the relationship between art and politics, Ranciére presents a view, called the "distribution of the sensible" (706). The idea is that the "common of the community," or the relationship between members of the community and the community or "space" in which they live, is able to make known the places and identities and the other "sensible" things so that they can be understood by every individual. The two concepts of "politics in art" and "art in politics" accomplish this. Though they accomplish identity in different ways, they are linked "as forms of presence of singular bodies in a specific space and time" (707).

He says furthermore that there is no conflict between purity of art and politicization (710). It seems that the political messages are brought to life by the very art in which they are intwined. In this way, art is a not just a "separate reality," it helps us understand what the world is and "what it might be." For Ranciére, the tension between the two politics of aesthetics (the politics of the becoming-life of art and the politics of the resistant form) describes how art can be understood in the different times and places of history.